Go to Rhino Records (Live) on Westwood Boulevard! Go to Rhino Records on Westwood Boulevard!
If you sing the above lines multiple times in a music-less, out-of-tune voice while clapping your hands, you have a good idea of the "music" that lay within this 1969 double LP. Rhino didn't exist in ...
Bob Geldof to deals with the three dominant sources of insecurity, satisfaction and anxiety for the human species in his 2002 album, "Sex, Age, and Death".
While this photo had to be part of the best photo shoot ever for the photographer, it reduces the theme of the album to a cliche. Many ...
You have heard that some women think that chocolate is like sex. Well when designing crappy album covers, the reverse is true: sex is like chocolate.
For one thing sex sells record albums.
For another, when a food goes rancid one can cover up the rancidity by covering the food in chocolate. ...
Come to Sweden, "... where the facts of life are stranger than fiction." "The most permissive state in the world!" (sez the cover) Well, that's got to mean only one thing, folks. That they're all a bunch of debauched perverts, and the rest of us uptight Westerners should pass up ...
"Empire of the Sun" is the name of a 1987 Stephen Spielberg movie, but it is also the name of an Australian musical duo consisting of Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore. The bombastic cover has them depicted as a cross between Michael Jackson and Adam Ant, but the music seems ...
Marty Gold and His Orchestra, with an album that more than likely hails from around the mid to late 1950s, called "Hi Fi Fo Fum". Not sure if that is supposed to be Gold dressed as The Green Giant on the cover. This site reports that this album hails from ...
You have a right to remain silent, while Carmen Miranda has a right to sing her fool head off. It almost isn't fair, is it? Here she is depicted as being attacked by a fruit bowl, and you stand accused.
She's smiling because she's hired the best lawyer in the business, ...
"I stood at Calvary in a business suit, but no one told me that they were gonna have a toga party" is how I paraphrase one MSN blogger who discussed this album. But this could also be one of the earliest depictions of Supply-Side Jesus in a business suit.
No one ...
A while back, I poked fun at a an album cover by Sterling Blythe, called Sterling Blythe Sings (CAC #47).
Mark Portillo, keeper of the blog called Drop Me Off In Harlem, started a concept where simple animation to familiar, and not-so-familiar album covers could bring out many salient features, or ...
Jesus H. Christ has 12 letters.
Elvis Presley has 12 letters.
No one knows what the "H" in "Jesus H. Christ" stood for.
No one was really sure if Elvis' middle name was "Aron" or "Aaron".
Jesus is a Capricorn. (December 25)
Elvis is a Capricorn. (January 8 )
Jesus said: "Love thy neighbor." (Matthew 22:39)
Elvis ...
This is a bit of an old phenomenon (it had its heyday about 2 years ago). However, I think a blog about album covers would be remiss to leave out the topic. Here is a gallery of the most original art found in the sleeveface genre. I won't go in ...
Gunning for the first weinie roast in zero gravity, Crosby, Stills and Nash's 1990 LP "Livin' It Up" took four years to record, and flopped in the record stores. Disappointing, since this was their first LP recorded as a group since 1977's "CSN".
Notable appearances on the album which peaked on ...
Kuratt and Rame are, respectively, a brand of Mens' and Ladies' jeans produced by Diesel. I mention "Shaky Sharks", released circa 1994, because this CD likely never saw the light of day in most record stores. It was intended as a promo CD, and was likely the background music in ...
Donnie and Joe Emerson's 1979 offering, Dreamin' Wild, is classed in some blogs in the psychedelic rock genre.
So, then I if I look at this picture and think that I see two heads growing out of one body, then I suppose that it's because I am on acid?
If this is ...
I have no idea how many remakes of the Hair soundtrack there were. You know, this hippie chick looks like she has a case of running out of conditioner and shampoo. While this doesn't hurt album sales in the least, it is still part of the problem.
Once again, we see ...
The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra wanted to portray Pinocchio in an innocent way, but I'm not sure. First of all, he doesn't look all that friendly, and something about him looks larger than life. Kind of like "Pinnochio attacks Manhattan".
Imagine a giant Pinnochio, tall as a skyscraper, dancing and causing havoc in ...
This is the original Herb Alpert album, playing mostly in-tune by the owner of A&M Records and his Tijuana Brass, called "Whipped Cream and Other delights", released in April of 1965.There is a lot of food referred to in the song titles. There is mention of lemons, tangerines, peanuts, green ...
This is the album cover from The Bloodhound Gang's last album as far as I can tell, their 2005 offering called "Hefty Fine".
The album cover has the much-wanted "Explicit Lyrics-Parental Advisory" sticker on the cover. Translated, that means: Kiddies, this is a way cool record! That other stuff without the ...
Uh, yeah, like, we're members of this band "Weezer", and, uh, like, buy our record OK?
Weezer is a band that may, on some level, be authentic and earthy (in the grunge sense); but with these album covers, they just look like some guys that just came out of Starbucks to ...
Yes, it's time for some old-fashioned run-of-the-mill examples of bad taste.
This example -- the mullet -- is so common, it is now cliche as an example of bad taste. No tangible information exists on the group Chicken Coup de Ville or this album.
I also don't recognise any of the "smash ...
I don't particularly wish to discuss heavy metal album covers all that much. They are meant to be ugly, disturbing, and sometimes even hard to look at. It goes with the territory, and the fans expect it and want it. However, the AC/DC tribute band "Boned" produced a 2005 ...
Xiu Xiu is a indie experimental outfit out of California. Despite its oriental-sounding name, none of its members have oriental-sounding names. A publicity photo of the group looks overwhelmingly Caucasian. One reviewer calls Xiu Xiu "the undisputed masters of introspective, creepy, noise-pop". They have been around since 2000.
This 2003 album ...
Some of the photo retouching ideas are kind of kinky, but that's part of what makes them so hilarious.
It turns out that there are some blogs that have had more than their share of fun with this photo. They have taken their talents in Photoshop to make albums with ...
The background on almost all of these albums were hard to track down if not impossible. In most cases on this installment we shall deal mostly with obscure albums. The coincidence is that these albums have some disturbing connection with the social process of courtship. Maybe they are unable to ...
Common wisdom tells us that you must love yourself if you are going to give love to others. Otherwise, if you see yourself as a miserable chump, others will see you the same way, and only other miserable chumps will be your companions.
The first step in loving yourself is self-acceptance. ...
Hi, my name is Bill Haymes, I like singing and songwriting and the educational challenge of getting children to write “adult contemporary” songs. I like nature, camping, riding down dirt roads in a VW Microbus.
Looking for a woman who will tour with me, likes nature as much as I do, and is willing to have America’s first family on the road.
My name is Virginia Belmont. I run a bird store and kennel in Manhattan, under the Rockefeller Centre, near the subway station. After decades of running this store and selling birds and dogs, I have finally had enough of the noise and racket, and I just want to run away. Anywhere but here.
I am also tired of the bar scene and I am seeking a man who is willing to run away with me, for a long-term committment.
Tom Middleton was another seventies artists who spends these days delivering mail for Canada Post in Victoria, BC. He had four hits in the mid-70s, this one being from February of 1976, peaking in Canada at #35, and never charting in the States. If you listen carefully to the intro, you can hear a guitar in the background playing “Here Comes The Sun”.
This is the last in the short-lived Video Monday series.
Hi. I’m Richard du Bois, I was born in The Bronx, I won Mr. America in 1954, Mr. Universe in 1955, and Mr. USA in 1957. I boinked dated Mae West, but got dumped for another guy who had a bigger pistol in his pocket. I made this record at a speech of the Full Gospel Businessman’s Fellowship, and they were all praying to be like me.
Seeking a female who agrees with me that I’m hot.
Hello. Hello? I thought the room was empty. Well, I think Dick Dubois is hot. Hi, Dickie-kins!
My name is Lu Lu, and my interests are singing country and western, and when I’n not singing, I just like to sit in front of the TV or read a trashy romance novel while eating a whole jar of cream puffs. OK, I confess, … two jars.
One of my quirks is that I order hairspray by the case, and have more cases on back order for the next 10 years. I don’t know if I wear my hair or my hair wears me!
Not much information exists on Mr. Luke Hollandsworth and this absolutely prophetic album. It is obvious that it is butt-ugly, and probably handed out to parishoners after one of his sermons.
I am not sure if The Baptist Standard is the same as this Baptist Standard, which now has a web edition. But Bobby Mankin is from Houston, and this 1968 album, “Doomed by Dope”, all kidding aside, tells quite a powerful story about involvement with drugs, pushers, and the law. And of course, his conversion to Christianity afterward.
Gary Weeks and Dave Beckett had a handful of minor seventies’ that were popular in Canada from around 1973 to 1976. The son of Gary, Jesse Weeks, now works as a police officer for the Toronto Police Service. The hit song below is their biggest hit “Could You Ever Love Me Again”, which peaked at #1 [...] [...]
In case you missed it, this song by The Gregory Brothers is based on a real news report from July 2010. This song apparently made the Billboard Hot 100 at #89, driven exclusively by iTunes downloads alone. The news report shows Antoine Dodson as a hero who has saved his sister from a rapist attack. While [...] [...]
Hi, my name is Steve Warren, I’m in my mid-30s, my favourite food is spicy chicken wings, and my favourite pastime consists of grooming my coiff’ and staring at myself in the mirror while playing “Dancing with myself” by Billy Idol..Seeking a woman who is quiet and is appreciative of a real man. I’m Myrnie Henderson. [...] [...]
Winning second place in the race to the bottom, is the Beatle Buddies! Four somewhat attractive women, who don’t even bother to take off their clothes, have therefore let this albun stand on the strength of their musical ability alone. I have to tell you, even though I don’t want to sound chauvanist, is that feminism [...] [...]
This is my first instalment in a series of lost and forgotten records from the past. Most of these hits are Canadian hits, and they are the ones that bring back memories for me from my youth. Below is a recording from a Canadian bubblegum rock group singed on to Columbia in the early seventies called [...] [...]
This album, supposedly made in 1978, shows the precursor to rappers in garish cars: hippies with garish cars. In 1978, hippies were long since a dying breed, being mostly a year for either clean-cut looking guys in disco suits, or for filthy-looking punk rockers. This record was released on the Cherry Records label out of Houston, [...] [...]
I have had many examples in this blog of black people in comedy getting all potty mouthed and raunchy. Now, Nova Scotian comedians MacLean and MacLean, later based in Winnipeg, have shown us that whitey can be just as potty mouthed, and have potties to prove it. Here, they join the white lowbrow humour of [...] [...]
Nancy Reed, otherwise known as Lady Reed, is a comedienne of the raunchy variety. Record stores often sold it “under the table” even as the so-called 70s sexual liberation was happening. Or maybe with titles like “International United Whores Union” they were afraid of offending their sistas at the Prostitutes Collective of Victoria (Australia), called [...] [...]
Recently, Kanye West has taken to Twitter, and many of his quotable tweets have been repackaged by someone with a lot of time on their hands, and have become the new captions on many New Yorker cartoons. Not my cup of tea (I didn’t find them either funny or ironic, just dull), but here is [...] [...]
The latest craze over the past couple of years seems to involve one or more people playing dead, as Rocketboom tells us: embedded by Embedded Video [...]
Floridian Maurice Young, known to his adoring admirers as “Trick Daddy”, has his 1998 album right here, with the clever name “www.thug.com”. Get a load of the web browser design, and the disembodied head of Mr. Daddy, impaled on his own logo. That’s gotta hurt, Maurice. The website still exists, along with its concomitant musician-thugs who [...] [...]
The only thing remarkable I found about this 1978 album cover is that Jim Hearn was probably one of the first guys in his native Northern California to wear Nike sneakers. Back in the day, you can see that you can still dial a telephone, and for most televisions, changing the channel meant that you needed [...] [...]
You are now witness to the reason why that just because a photo looks OK on a mantlepiece, it is not necessarily useful on an album cover. Especially if it is also void of a title. But I am keen to guess. If I am not mistaken, this is Germany-born Jazz pianist John Berger. And since [...] [...]
There was an article that appeared on Friday on MSN.COM, which tried to poke fun at some of “the worst lyrics of all time” by artists who presumably should have known better. I had a problem with the article, just like the lyrics, the smart-aleck comments from the author of the MSN article were not well-thought-out [...] [...]
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